Ouchies

I so just burnt my finger while cooking dinner and it blistered straight away.  It is so incredibly ouchies its not funny….

Anyways, thought it was about time to do another update on this thing.

I really havent got a lot to talk about so I cant imagine that this blog will be a) very interesting and b) very long, but this is me, and what do i do best? Apart from spill glitter and corrupt children?  I waffle!

Anyways where do I start?

So a few weeks ago Hannah and I went to Pollock’s Toy Museum.  It was my birthday present to Hannah, and Finn was meant to come with us, but he had testicles in the back of his throat (for the uneducated that means he had swollen tonsils) so Michelle thought it best that he stayed at home.  In all honesty, he didnt miss much.  I was quite disappointed with the toy museum.  Hannah said she enjoyed it, even thought it was quite small.  She was really quiet while we were on the tube going there, which isnt like Hannah at all.  Normally she’s full of beans but she was a little upset that Finn wasnt there with her (it took me half an hour to get that out of her).  So we took the tube from Northfields out to Goodge Street and then Hannah and I went on a mission to find some lunch.  Hannah decided McDonalds was the place to go until she saw Subway.  So off we went and sat down and ate subway and she started to come right.  We walked down to the toy museum and after Hannah directed us in the wrong direction (no honestly!  She had my iphone and was telling me which way we needed to go)  Luckily we only walked a short distance and then I checked where we were and corrected us.  So we eventually get there and the place is pretty small – although they had an awesome old school cash register – but the guy sitting behind it was kinda creepy looking so I didnt bother taking a photo of it.  So we had a we wander around and it took us about 20 minutes to see everything.  They had a whole heap of different stuff from Teddy Bears dating back to 1900.  Old Spaceships to Gollywogs.  There are a small amount of photos up HERE but it was really hard to photo as we had to photo through glass

Anyways, Hannah spent ages looking through the shop to find something to take home for Finn.  That was until I discovered Noisy Putty.  So I brought them one each and off we set.  I didnt know that Michelle hated farting noises….i do now haha!!  She hated the stuff.  So I took a couple of video’s of the kids making farting noises with their putty which can be found HERE (please note the video quality isnt the greatest because a) of where i was sitting and b) because its on my iphone and I wasnt prepared for it, it was purely a spare of the moment thing)

Not much really happened after that.   Although I did go to Monkey World in Dorset.  OMG this place was so cool.  Jess would have had a field day here.  So we took the train to monkey world it took like 2.5 hours to get there and it was pretty damn cold.  We saw so many monkeys.  My favourites were definitely the Orang-utans.  They were so adorable and playful.  There were two sitting inside their shelter which looked like a mom and its baby.  And there was this lady standing outside with her bag up against the glass looking for something in her bag, but she was showing the monkeys what was in her bag – lipstick, mirror, tissues, everything you could think of finding in a woman’s handbag.  When she eventually reached the bottom of her bag, she looked at the two monkeys and said there was nothing more and they both moved away from the window.  Very smart animals!  I havent put the photos of this up yet as most of them were pretty crap as the enclosures & monkeys were too far away or i was photoing through scratched glass, but the few photos i do have will be up HERE in their own folder – when I get around to doing it lol

But nothing proved how smart these animals are until we were just about to leave.  We went and saw one of the bigger enclosures and the monkeys were all inside as it was cold and getting dark – it was about 4pm.  They had this massive shelter with wooden ledges around the wall.  There was a heap of straw at the bottom and most of the monkeys had a big pile of it that they had made into a nest with blankets as well.  It was amazing to watch them build their own nest and sit in it and then one of them even wrapped one of his many blankets around himself.  Was so awesome.

Anyways since then Ive done very little.  Its cold and miserable here now.  Winter is kicking in unfortunately.

Take care xxx

Snails, Snow and 30 degree Heat

Yeah okay so this is well overdue, but I dont care!  You lot can suffer mwahahaha

So anyways, my last update was about my trip to Edinburgh, which seems like an entire life time ago now.  After that was my Europe Trip….Oh yes we did watch Euro Trip on the bus!!!

Alrighty, Lets see if my brain still remembers what we did….

It all started with a 4am wake up call … i tell you what 4am is not a time my body is used to, in fact up until then I wasnt even sure that 4am actually existed!  Apparently it does, and its not a nice time!  So up I get, and by 5am there is a black cab waiting to take me to the hostel we were meeting at.  Now I did this tour through Topdeck who arent like Contiki and have a meeting the day before so you can see who is going to be on tour with you.  So I got there and had no idea what was happening.

Eventually we borded the bus and off we set!  All I wanted to do was sleep but I was sitting in an aisle seat which makes for uncomfortable sleeping conditions.  I was, however sitting next to Katie, another Kiwi who was really nice so we chatted for a bit.  It felt like the drive to Dover was an eternity, but in reality it wasnt that long.  So we arrive in Dover (saw the White Cliffs – not overly impressive, but still took a couple of photos).  We stayed here for about an hour, had some food, enjoyed the view and then jumped on the Ferry to take us to Calais, France.

We then spent the rest of the day driving to Paris.  The drive to Paris was pretty uneventful (I think, honestly I cant remember!!).  When we got to Paris, we took our stuff to our rooms.  Katie and I were sharing with Simone and Jas who were pretty cruisy!  We then went and had dinner and then off for a Bus Tour of Paris.  Being night time and travelling in a bus, taking photos was pretty much a no go with an SLR camera, but thats okay.  The following day we had to ourselves and we could do whatever we wanted.  Katie and I set out with Bree and Jedda and louise and Kat and headed off to the Lourve.  OMG this place was amazing!  Did you know, (oh yes! useless piece of information time!) if you spent 1 minute at each painting inside to Lourve it would take you 8 months to see everything, and they only put 5% on display!  Thats a whole lotta paintings!!  We went off to see Mona Lisa.  Its all boxed in glass and roped off, but still quite impressive!

We also went and saw the Arc De Tiomphe, this was pretty awesome.  The architechure in Paris was kinda cool.  We saw the Eiffel Tower as well, and saw some unromantic, cliched guy propose to his girlfriend under the Eiffel Tower *Yawnfest*  (grow an imagination!)

OMG we went to the Catacombs as well!  This place was awesome, it was full of skeletons of Monks.  Unfortunately having such a large camera and not being allowed to take photos I couldnt, but this is the Wikipedia page for it. 

We also went and saw Notre Dame as well.  We seemed to walk for hours.  We, of course, stopped and had Crepes as well!  We had a pinic dinner across from the Eiffel Tower – where snails were on the menu.  Im sorry, but I have a friend called Snail, so eatting a snail seemed wrong on so many levels!  Plus they were covered in some lumpy sinus infected green snot.  They didnt look appealing at all, lol.  Overall I wasnt impressed with Paris, in fact that was probably the worse part of the tour.  The People were so Incredibly rude as well.

The next morning we headed off to Switzerland – man this was one hell of a long drive!  And it rained, the only time we had rain in the 8 days I was on the tour.

Switzerland was AMAZING!  I absolutely loved it.  We stayed in Lauterbrunnen!  I fell in love here!  Lauterbrunnen is a small village in Switzerland, so small that the population is only about 2500!  Yep thats pretty small, but it was such a gorgeous place, it was so picturesque. 

We took one of the click-clack trains (yes, it probably does have a proper name, but I’m buggered if I know what, and I dont really care, click-clack is a cool sounding word!) to Jungfraujoch, which at 3,454m (11,323ft) high is the highest railway station in Europe.  When we got to the top I was feeling rather sick, I thought I was going to pass out from the altitude.  The girls went out into the snow to go to the look out, but I wasnt feeling well so stayed put and it was warmer lol!  When we got here the fog was so thick you couldnt see anything, but within the space of an hour it magically disappeared and the view was absolutely incredible!  Definitely somewhere I would go back to.  I absolutely loved Switzerland.

Next stop was a couple of hours in Pisa.  Even though you know the Leaning Tower is on a lean (duh!) you still look at it and think “Wow its on more of a lean than I would have expected” lol.  Sounds silly, but if you go there, you’d understand.

Then we headed off to Florence.  Florence was okay, but I felt we were there for too long.  There wasnt a lot to do, and I expected it to be more like “Under the Tuscany Sun” but it wasnt.  So we had a walking tour in the morning.  We saw Duomo, which is a gothic cathedral, which apparently took 5 centuries to complete!  Thats a long time!  Mind you, if you saw it, you would understand why.  We saw the fake statue of David.  But other than that Florence was pretty average.

Then we went to Rome.  WOW!!!!!!  Rome was Fantastical!! (new word!)
So this was where I left the tour.  The tour was made up of two groups.  The group that was doing the 8 day tour from London to Rome and the 26/28? Day tour that did a whole lotta other stuff and eventually went back to London.  So my last day here we had a tour of the Vatican – Yep time for another piece of useless information – If you were to spend one minute at each thing (Sculpture/Painting etc) in the Vatican it would take you 12 years to see everything!  Thats a hell of a long time to spend in one museum!  So we did this for most of the morning.  After this….we walked until we could walk no more!  Omg we saw so much stuff.  Trevi Fountain – OMG WOW!  Nothing can describe how amazing this fountain is.  We saw the Pantheon.  This place isnt much to look at from the outside, but you go inside and its fantastic.  We went to Piazza Navona and saw the fountain of four Rivers and the Fontana Del Nettuno.  We went and saw the Colosseum as well.   The architechure and statues in Rome are like nothing else.  We had Pizza and Gelati in this cute wee place.   So many flavours to choose from!  After this we headed back to camp and partied till the wee hours.  The group then carried on with their tour and I made my way to the other side of Rome to wait for Michelle to arrive.

So I made it on the train, by myself, with my luggage, in one piece, without getting lost.  Yay me!  I registered at the hotel and went upstairs to shower.  OMG the weather in Rome was so incredibly hot!  You have a shower, go outside and within 3 minutes you need another shower, but how brown did I get (without a sunbed!).  OH YEAH.  However, I sat on the bed and fell asleep!  I was a tired little bunny.  I woke up just before Michelle arrived (must be my super powers telling me!).  So we showered (seperately obviously) and got ready to go out.  Where were we heading?  The Pantheon.  Where did we go?  Almost everywhere except the Vatican!!  We did the Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, The Pantheon, Piazza della Repubblica, Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II, Piazza Colonna, Piazza Navona.  Im sure I’m missing something but who knows.  By the end of it we were knackered so we stopped at this little wee restuarant.  It was between Trevi Fountain and the Pantheon.  We had this short wee waiter who took quite a shinning to Michelle and gave us free drinks!  (Some Sparkling red wine/Champagne thing – quite nice though!)  So we ordered our meals and the waiter kept hitting on Michelle.  At the end of the night, he asked us if we would come back, so to keep him happy we said yes, we would come back tomorrow!  We werent actually planning on it. 

The next morning – after a nice wee sleep in – we got up and headed to the Circo Massimo, which really is nothing but grass now, but used to host the Chariot Racing.  After that we headed to the Roman Ruins/Forum.  WOW this was spectacular.  This is where the Ancient Roman City was and whats left of it is just lying around for people to walk through.  We spent so long here in the 30 degree heat.  After that we headed over to the Colosseum and wandered through that.  Honestly, I thought the colosseum was better from the outside than it was the inside, but I can say, Ive been there and i’ve been through it.  We also saw the Mouth of Truth.  The line was massive here and it was so hot that I managed to wait until no one was standing in front of it and took a photo through the gate!  I also introduced Michelle to liquorice flavoured Gelato!  Definitely a winner on that  one!  We also did the Castle Sant Angelo.

That night we were trying to decide where to go for dinner, so we decided – seeing as we somehow ended up over by Trevi fountain again, that we would go to the pasta place across from where we were the night before.  The staff were so rude, and when she finally took us inside to be seated, we took one look at the food and walked straight back out again.  We ended up at the same resturant as the night before.  The other waiter remembered us, and seated us.  He must have gone inside to tell the other guy we came back as he came out and welcomed us.  The service and food were really good here, definitely a place I’d go back to – Thanks Michelle for remembering where this was!!  So he brought us out some free drinks (the red wine/champagne stuff) as well as the drinks that we ordered while we looked through the menu.  We decided on Fish this night.  As it took so long for the fish to be cooked, he brought us another one of these free wine things (no one else in the resturant were getting these – just us!), we ordered another drink (bear in mind we hadnt eaten since lunch and it was now about 8pm).  When the meals finally came out, Michelle and I shared both of them and a plate of fries – which came out cold, so he brought us some new ones along with some bread and Vinegar and Olive Oil.  He really did spoil us!  The whole time flirting with Michelle.  We ended up talking to a random Scottish couple who were seated next to us.  They thought it was hilarious.  We finally decided, in our drunken state, that we should make a move as we had a good half hour walk back to the hotel.  So I went  and used the toilet before we left and this waiter bails me up on the stairwell.  He asked me how the meal was, and I was honest I said it was really good.  He then took my hand and kissed it *gag* so i started panicking here.  I then tried to leave and he asked if we were coming back tomorrow.  I said we were going home tomorrow, then he asked me out to a bar … in full panic mode at this point…im stuck in a stairwell where no one would come down unless they needed to pee….what was the likelihood of someone needing to pee in the next 30 seconds?  Slim…i then rudely said I had to go and ran up the stairs, sat down, told Michelle (and the Scottish couple) what had happened and that we needed to get out of here.  So we did.  We paid and we went home.  Turns out Im a pretty good navigator when need be!  So we went home and slept.  Both woke up with headaches…those free drinks may have been good (we had 3 of them plus the drinks we had) but man did they give us a mean headache!

So we spent the day wandering aimlessly until we needed to get the train to the airport. 

The rest of it was pretty uneventful.  We got to the airport, the plane was delayed due to a fault.  2 hours laterish we landed in Heathrow and caught the tube back to Michelles.  By the time I got to bed it was after 1.30 and I had to be up at 7 to get to work for 9!  needless to say the rest of the week was a right-off while I tried to catch up on sleep.  But we had an awesome time, and travelling with Michelle was fun!

Since then I have done absolutely nothing lol! Im sick of typing now, so Im going to sign off.

Laters xxx

update

This blog is officially updated

Come back next week when I actually do update this…

Thanks
Sarah

Tattoos and Haggis

Theres something about watching the English hillside roll by thats truly magical.  As I watch them roll by it almost reminds me of driving on the open roads back home.

The rain has finally stopped, theres blue sky’s above us but black skys in front.  More rain to come?  As cars drive past they spray rain up from the road leaving a rainbow in their trail.

It’s now 11.18 and we have been on the road since 7am.  Ive been up since 4am and after a very sleepless night I am seriously starting to feel it.  I need coffee

The things you do for an adventure!!

We are on our way up to Edinburgh.  I dont know anyone on the coach but Im hoping that in time I will know at least a handful of people who I will stay in touch with after our adventure.

This is my first trip out of England and Im so excited, Im heading to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo with Contiki.  We are about to make our last stop before Edinburgh.  Its getting cold, and Im worried that I havent packed enough warm clothes.  Only time will tell.  Im starting to get very uncomfortable and I’m looking forward to the next stop so I can get out and stretch.

We are back on the bus now, we just had our last stop before Edinburgh.  I met two really nice people while at our stop.  An Australian guy who just showed me a new technique on my camera – although I’m still unsure of his name!  And a really nice New Zealand girl who has only just got here.

That was where my mindless ramblings ended.

We made one last stop when we got to the border and saw a piper and the view.  Words cannot describe just how amazing the Scottish landscapes are.  But OMG it is freezing out there!  You could freeze the balls off a brass monkey its that cold out there!   Tonight we are off to a special dinner for us with a Piper playing for us as well.  Im looking forward to trying the Haggis – when in Scotland you have to do these things – just like walking past a guy in a kilt and lifting his kilt – just to make sure he’s wearing it properly (this actually did happen later – but I’ll get to that)

So we get to the place we are staying – which is the Uni – but we get our own rooms which is awesome because I so miss having my own room!!  We have enough time to freshen up then its back on the bus to head out to dinner.  I end up sitting with the two that I met on the way here – and finally learn their names too!

Dinner was amazing, I had the Haggis as a starter, chicken with a whiskey sauce for the main.  Photos are up on Smugmug as usual.  After this we went into town for a bit of drinking.  Now when I say a bit of drinking, I mean drinking like a true Scotsman would and ended up getting home at 5am! Whoops!  Anyways up bright an early to be on the bus at 9am – couldnt face breakfast.  Meet up with Ellie on the bus and we spent the day wandering through Edinburgh.  We started by heading to the surgeons museum which we found didnt open till 12 so we went and took some photos, walked around.  We walked to the Scot Monument which is a massive gothic looking thing which we climbed to the top of. Man were our legs sore after this!  Then we went and saw North South Divide which was free comedy and OMG these guys were hilarious!!  They were so funny, we were so glad we went to that.  Then we headed back to the surgeons museum.  After this we were knackered that we went back to our rooms had a wee granny nap before heading back out for the night.

This was the night we went to the Military Tattoo.  I was so guttered because my camera really wasnt handling it and my wee sony didnt really have enough battery life in it to take many photos.  But I got some.  I absolutely loved the Tattoo, although it was like Brass Monkeys there as well.  By the time we left my hands were blue I was so cold and wearing so many layers as well.  After this we heading into town for some serious drinking, singing and dancing.  We had an absolute ball this night.  So much so that we didnt get home until 6!  Back up again, although this time at the later time of about 10!

Ellie, Gus, Christian and I went out in search of greasy food to ease our hangovers and settled on a pub breakfast.  We then spent the day wandering aimlessly around Edinburgh.  Just before we departed and heading back to our rooms we brought tickets to go and see Stephen K Amos.

We then went our separate ways and most of us went for a granny nap before dinner.  Dinner ended up being Christian and I at the pub, briefly being joined by Pete, our driver.  Then we all met up to go see Stephen K Amos.  I really wasnt in the mood for going out, but we had brought tickets and it was our last night in Edinburgh.  Ellie was so tired, I dont think she was really in the mood for it either.  But we got there, got front row seats and it was absolutely brilliant.  I was so glad I went and would pay to see him again.  We finally got home at about 11.30 and went straight to bed as it was up early to be back on the bus at 9.

After an english breakfast with Ellie we jumped onto the coach.  Ellie and I were sitting with each other, until the two people in front of us moved so Ellie and I had two seats to ourselves.  You know what that means!  I curled myself up on both seats and slept a good 5 hours of the way back home.  God did I need it!!

I had a great time and for anyone who hasnt experienced the Military Tattoo and is thinking about it, I strongly recommend going.  Its fantastic!

So now that I’m back I’m still in contact with Christian and Ellie – although she was in Ireland for a while so havent really heard from her, and I occasionally hear from Gus.  Gus is heading back to Australia soon which is a shame, but I’m hoping to catch up with the other two when I get back from my next holiday which starts in 2 days …. Paris Switzerland and Rome.

And the best bit – I got myself an iPhone and downloaded the WordPress application so I can blog while I’m away – if I actually do it is a completely different story.

See you in 12 days!!
xxx

Purple

OMG someone needs to remove every single purple lollie from the world.  Have you ever noticed just how many purple lollies you get, especially when purple lollies are totally 100% feral!  They are rank beyond all rankness. *hehe i like that actually – rank beyond all rankness…that will so be reused!*

Okay well I have a lot to catch up on, seeing as the last time I updated this was when I went to Arundel.  What on earth have I done since then???

Well I have finally moved into a flat and unfortunately I am sharing a room.  This is also rank beyond all rankness.  Its so irritating, actually she is so irritating.  If I am downstairs she will go downstairs, if I’m upstairs she will go upstairs….along with the washing issues…..eeww shes so incredibly gross!  So I am going to look for somewhere else to live….somewhere where I have my own room!!!

What else have I done????

Ooooohhhh I went to Brighton and fell in love!  I absolutely LOVED Brighton.  If it wasn’t so far to get to work from Brighton I would so move there.   Even the Beach….which isn’t really a beach as it has pebbles and not sand… was awesome.  It was so hot down there too when I went.  Stupidly though, in my pure retardedness, I actually set out that day to go to Camden Markets with my camera.  So I only had half a battery when I set out.  It was a good thing my blackberry has a pretty decent camera in it.  So I definitely have to go back as I got like no photos of the Pier, that and this place is so cool!

What else did I do?

Oh I went to Cambridge which I must say I wasn’t overly impressed with.  I think because I expected it to be like Oxford with all the cool stuff close together, but its not.  Cambridge is very spread out in comparison.
However I did see the coolest thing ever….a man sitting inside a street rubbish bin playing guitar and singing!!  A photo of this can be found HERE But other than this, I really wasn’t feeling Cambridge.

What else???  This really is a struggle…i should so update this more frequently….maybe when I get an iPhone I’ll update it more….Yep Sarah needs new toys.  Seems like Dad is getting all these toys!  I need one.  Yes Mom – Still looking for a laptop, but Ive got to find the right one first!

So I skyped home the other day as I always do on a Saturday morning.  And Aunty Desy was there.  Apparently her son had kicked her out of her own home for his 21st party!!  Classic ahe??!!  However she told me about this tree.  I can see you looking at this strangely thinking “a tree?”  But its not just any old tree – well it is old in fact its 900 years old!!  Cool huh?  So this tree, actually its just a tree stump, is called the Elfin Oak.  Its the most coolest thing I have ever seen….okay well maybe not ‘ever’ but it came pretty damn close!!  So this tree was originally in Richmond Park and was relocated to Kensington Gardens and in the early 1900’s some guy carved all these little elves and stuff into the tree.  There’s Elves and rats, shoes and foxes, turtles and bird.  Its really quite cool.  Again photos can be found HERE

Well other than that, not a lot has been happening to be honest.   I’m off to the Edinburgh Festival on Friday with Contiki so that should be fun.  And then in September I am doing a tour with Topdeck which goes from London to Paris, through Switzerland and down to Rome – so excited about this!!!!!!

Anyways, I’ve waffled way to much now.

Ciao

Music

Right, so I was on the train yesterday when I was listening to ‘All Along the Watch Tower’ when I started thinking about the song.  After a few drinks (or maybe a few more than I’m willing to admit on here) I tweeted part of this thought, but I don’t think it really made much sense.  So I shall explain here and leave it open for discussion for those who are silly enough to try and argue with me!

Wish me luck

Okay so there I was, trying to wake up on my way to work on the train listening to ‘All Along the Watch Tower’ which as you know is a Jimi Hendrix song and one of the worlds greatest songs.  However, Jimi Hendrix didn’t write the song.  Bob Dylan did.  However, Jimi Hendrix shoes are pretty big, so when Bob Dylan performed this song it was fairly average.  So my thoughts were this…

If you write amazing lyrics but perform it badly does this make you a good artist?  or just average?

If someone else writes your songs for you but you perform them amazingly does that make you a good artist or just average?

In today’s world you don’t have artists like Paul McCartney and John Lennon or even George Harrison who not only could write amazing lyrics but could perform them as well.  For anyone who hasn’t seen George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh its so worth watching!

And so ends my musical waffle

Ciao!

Fingers Crossed

Well its now time for another thrilling update of Glitter Girls Adventures.

However I am going to start off with how awesome are the guys at Moving2London!!!  This site was my lifeline before making my move to London.  They are currently running a competition to win an Asus laptop so make sure you keep your fingers crossed for me as I SO need a new laptop, mine is dying an extremely slow and irritating!

As for travel news.

Well I got up early on Sunday morning (what was I thinking?) and I made my way to Victoria Station.  From here I caught the train down to Arundel. 1 hour and 30 minutes and some Bowling for Soup I arrived in Arundel.  A short 10 minute walk in the sun and I had reached the enterance to the castle.  £15 later (but so worth it to see inside the bedrooms!) I was inside the castle.  I was so excited to actually be inside the castle as I have dreamed about going since I was a kid flicking through the blue hard covered castle book dad had.  It was absolutely brilliant!  And the gardens were spectacular.  I took some photos – obviously you cant take photos of the inside of the castle and the castle is so massive and spread out that its nearly impossible to get the whole castle while standing on the ground – however a photo from the air would be awesome!  Photos will be uploaded tonight when I get time.

What else is happening?  I have finally been given access to the BES so I can now set my own activation codes without having to wait ages for it!  GO ME!!

I am *trying* to learn Cisco stuff – this should be interesting, I dot know anything about Cisco.  But Stuart very kindly sent me some stuff to read so fingers crossed my tiny little brain can handle it.  It needs stimulating some how!

Other than that its been a fair unproductive few weeks since I last updated this.  So I shall sign off now, as I have no idea and Im waffling something chronic!

Will try and update again soon xxx

Mmmm Waffle!

Well I just read back through my blog – why?  No idea to be honest.  But far out I waffle!  In all honesty this isn’t anything new, as everyone always tells me I waffle, but I never realised just how bad it was. (see waffling again!)

So I haven’t really improved on the whole updating blog thingy, but that’s just tough, you’ll just have to live with it   I’m sure one day I will get better and by that stage people will be used to only checking my blog once a month for an update that they wont even notice lol (more waffling)

I’m trying to think back to what I have been doing. 

Oohh the guy upstairs gave me an UNFAIL stamp the other day!  w00t!  So now not only do I get to FAIL people but I can UNFAIL them if I feel sorry for them!!  How Awesome is this?  Its 28 times betterer with lots of 000’s!! (for those that know the Primo advert this will make sense….to those that don’t… hahaha FAIL! No seriously will see if its on You Tube because its fantastic!)

What else has happened?

Oh Dad had his operation the other week and shaved off his moustache!  Yep shaved it off…all gone…a little weird having never known dad without it.  Doesn’t look quite so much like George Harrison now, but still kinda cool!  I remember when we were kids and we were playing barrel of monkeys dad would grab our head and kiss us really hard on the forehead with his prickly moustache to try and make us drop our monkeys.  Lol its funny the things you remember!

Speaking of remembering things, Michelle and I had a conversation about Nanna and Grandad last night, which resulted in me drawing the outline of their house in Hoon Hay Road…Weird! (even more waffling)

OMG how could I have forgotten the shopping trip with Penny??!!
Okay so Penny is one of Michelle’s Australian friends who stayed for about a week and man can this girl shop!!
On the Sunday we went to Westfields and I’m not kidding we shopped for 5 hours!  I finally found a nice short denim skirt.  Probably a bit shorter than I would normally wear but with black leggings under it, its not too bad.  However a new skirt meant new shoes!  I needed some flat slipper/ballet shoes.  I knew exactly what I wanted, it was just a matter of finding them.  Jess showed me her ones and that’s what I was looking for.  However in this massive shopping mall do you think I could find any??  Nope!  Even the sketchers ones weren’t that great.  But Penny had a ball and brought a decent amount of stuff. 
By the end of it we were all absolutely buggered.  So off we went home to relax in the sun.

On the Monday (it was a bank holiday so no work!) we went out to Bicester.  This place was fantastic!!!  It was all designer stuff at discounted prices (for those at home, kind of like Dressmart but really big designer clothes).  They had every name you could think of.  DKNY, D&G, Marnie, MaxMara, Ralph Lauren, Tag, Diesel, Calvin Klein, LK Bennet, Karen Millen, Burberry, Mulberry, Dior,  Versace,  Puma etc.

Now I only mentioned Puma because of the funny experience we had in there.  The day before when we were out at Westfields I saw a really nice pair of Puma flat shoes that would have been perfect for my skirt.  However they were £50.  So I held off to see if I could get something else.  Well at the Puma shop I found another pair that were so cute for only £40.  The guy in there was quite cute as well.  So Michelle starts making these comments about him, he thinks shes my mother (hahaha) and he mentions that if you buy something you get half price off a second item…Michelle’s reply?  Can we take the shoes and get you free!  LOL it was ssssoooo funny!  Although she wasn’t impressed about the mother comment lol. 

Anyways, I also found these really sexy sunglasses.  They were Ralph Lauren and were SO Audrey Hepburn/Jackie O like I absolutely fell in love with them.  Street prices was £179 but at Bicester they were down to £119.  But still I couldn’t justify £119 on a pair of sunglasses.  But they really were the awesomest glasses I have seen and I cant find anything similar and cheaper.

Again we shopped for about 6 hours.  By the end of the long weekend I was absolutely knackered, completely shopped out.  But still we had a great time and Penny brought so much stuff, I will never know how she managed to get it all home!!  And how many people need that many shoes?? lol

So that weekend we had some gorgeous weather and it just got better from there.  The other weekend it was so hot Michelle and I sat outside reading and drinking all day!  I was drinking Pitu (shudders just thinking about it) mixed with some premixed drink that already had a minute amount of white rum in it.  But eventually we ran out of that and the Pitu was mixed with Orange juice which was a bit nicer – although that could have been because I was on to my fourth? drink lol.  So there we were reading, drinking, sizzling in the sun.  It was fantastic!!  Although I got sunburn on my arm in a weird place which hurt a lot (warren – for those who know Empire records ‘Coz it would hurt a lot warren’ will make sense – for those that don’t FAIL! Go watch it!!).  On the Sunday it was just as hot, so again we sat out side drinking, reading, sizzling in the sun.  I tell you what though, my legs, arms and even my feet are tanned!  I’m thanking the sunbedding for this as normally I would just burn, however now I have tan lines which is not so cool.  Anyways the hot weather stuck around for a good week after that, now….its raining

Well I think I have officially run out of waffle. So I shall leave it here

Waffle Waffle xx

Just Dance

Spin that record babe da da doo-doo mmm

I so have this song stuck in my head at the moment!
Anyways I thought it was well and truly time for an update on here.

I dont really have a lot to report, but let me think back to what I have done.  God I have no idea what I have done over the last month.

Findlay had his birthday on ANZAC day.  So we had a football party down at the local park.  The weather was good for a change and they had a great time.  After football they all came back here and had hotdogs and icecream before Michelle brought out her wonderful homemade sponge cake covered in chocolate!  OMG it was so good!!
Jess had her birthday the day after, so I rung home and had a wee (long) chat with her.

Um what else have I done??  Not much really.  I rung home the other week and spent most of the time listening to Crystal (Jess’ dog) lick the phone lol.  Then my parents had this bright (dull) idea that skype would be a good (bad) idea.  So now instead of ringing home every Saturday I now have to sit in front of a camera looking like a knob talking to them lol.  Its definitely an interesting experience.  Jess and Doug have a camera but not a microphone yet, so we can set it up for them as well.

Danny took the kids and I out to see the HMS Belfast, that was kinda cool.  Its absolutely massive!  And it was cold and raining which didnt help the experience lol.  To get to the HMS we had to cross the Tower Bridge.  This is an amazing piece of architechture.  So I look lots of photos trying to get it to look right.  But because the sky was grey (as usual) and it was raining, the photos were pretty average.  Even though Adrian tried to convince me they looked fine.  We also went out to St Katherines Dock.  This place is just awesome!  With all the little wee shops looking out on to the dock.  Its fantastic i really liked it out there.

um what else.  OH i got a FAIL Stamp!!  How awesome! One of the guys at work, who is really nice, got me a FAIL stamp.  So i FAILed my entire team while they were all at the pub, and of course one of them didnt get…no brains.  He really needs a FAIL stamp on his forehead.  But I have FAILed almost everything.  There are post it notes covered in the word FAIL everywhere.

Adrian and I are entering a photography competition.  Why?  Because someone sent me this link and told me to enter and i was like…dude are you for real?  So I sent the link to Adrian to get his opinion, expecting him to say, yep thats out of your league…but no.  The Ham told me to go for it.  So somehow I got talked into doing this.  So Adrian is going to show me how to edit one of my photos, coz i cant use lightroom – retard much?  But yeah.  Speaking of Adrian, we are looking at doing a roadtrip through Europe.  Starting in Paris and working our way across to Romania and then back through the bottom via Greece and Italy.  But its currently pending his work situation and whether or not I can afford it.  But its a once in a life time opportunity so Im hoping we can get it sorted!

I really dont think I have anything else to say at the moment.  I will try and sort this silly blog out and get it updated more often (yes I know I say that every time) but it really is quite a struggle to remember what I have done.

Anyways, Im going to go and sort out some new music for my mp3 player.

Laters
xxx

Its been a long time coming

10 months in fact!  Winter – that’s what I’m talking about.  Can you imagine 10 months of bitterly cold temperatures, rain, snow, hail, sleet pooy weather that’s seems like its never going to end.  I tell you what, the next time I say I’m moving to another country and I’m going from one winter to another – SLAP ME!

However having just finished that rant it is starting to get warmer and now when I leave work its still light out.  In fact, it doesn’t get dark now till after 7pm – better than the getting dark at 3.30pm I came into haha.  Anyways, with day light savings and the warmer weather its starting to feel like Christmas – weird I know.

So on a brighter note – Ive made a few changes to my blog.  I’m not 100% sure if I like it so feel free to let me know your thoughts.  Maybe one day I’ll get off my lazy bum and look at making my own theme for it – haha can’t imagine that happening any time soon, but stranger things have happened.  I finally uploaded a few photos to my fabulously new photo site (Thank You Adrian )which can be found HERE.  One day when strange things really are happening I will learn how to make a background for that too!

I must admit I haven’t been up to much lately.  Danny and I took the kids to Richmond Park where we saw the Reindeer that the Queen has.  Apparently there are so many in this park that the Queen closes the park and culls some of them – Lunch?
But that was pretty cool actually because this park is huge and we drove through it – cant say that about the Parks back home!

Then we had UK Mothers day (different from NZ as theirs is the second Sunday in May if I am correct – which I always am!).  So we went out to The Fox and the food was so good!  Finn gave this place his seal of approval which is the main thing.  Hannah made a right mess of her face while eating chocolate ice-cream – so much in fact, I took a photo!

Other than that, I don’t think I have done much else – well actually no that’s probably a lie, its just that its taken me so long to get my A into G that I can no longer remember what I have done.  Which proves a point really – I need to update this more often, but you cant teach an old dog new tricks apparently – unless you bribe them with chocolate then it could be possible – anythings possible with chocolate.

Arundel Castle opens in 2 days!  Scotney Castle is only an hour away on the train….but I don’t know how to get there from the station and I cant find any public transport from the station to the castle, so I might email them and ask – PLUS Scotney Castle is a National Trust Property which means it doesn’t cost me to enter WOOHOO!
I really need to get a hair cut this weekend (or next depending whether or not I go to the Zoo!)

Ohh..did I mention that I broke the Blackberry Storm I had!!  Good effort on my part!  3 Weeks I had it and the screen started playing up – that’s what happens when you don’t do enough testing on your products…..you get CRAP.

I’m really needing something creative to do.  Im so over sitting in an office all day.  But I dont know what I should do – except that instead of IT I should have done Business…but oh well.  Maybe one day I’ll work out what I should do…hopefully.

Well I should probably end this here as its SO boring already.
I will try my hardest to update this more often – although having said that I think I said that last time too!!